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[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

The Westminster consensus on national security is a genuine threat to Britons’ lives.

https://t.co/Z9eU1TNdZ9

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

“The fasten seat belts sign is on”.

This is a message I received early this morning from one of the UK’s most experienced, savvy and respected financial traders. Someone I have come to know and trust for the last 25 years.

10-year bond yields are now almost 4.5pc - up some 50 basis points over the last month.

30-year yields this morning went above 6pc - a 28-year high.

Yet the UK’s political and media class continues to focus on party posturing and folksy rhetoric, ignoring the slow-motion disaster that has been happening on the UK’s sovereign bond markets for at least the last 18 months - a disaster that will inevitably, unless we drastically change course, turn into a fully blown market meltdown.

At that point, the UK government won’t be able to borrow enough money to finance our already spiralling debt interest bill.

Britain’s financial management will be taken over by overseas technocrats - that will be the condition of additional borrowing, to maintain the basic functions of the state, as happened in Greece and Italy back in the early 2010s and here in Britain 50 years ago this year (when we were forced in 1976 to apply to the IMF for a bailout).

The austerity then imposed on Britain would make 2010-2019 feel like a picnic - far, far worse than it would be if we took serious action now to control our public finances.

Lower-income households would suffer most - and there would be serious damage done to the UK’s already rapidly-fraying social fabric ….

I have been warning about these looking fiscal dangers publicly, in my newspaper columns and elsewhere, since at least early 2024.

Doing so hasn’t been easy or fun. I have been dismissed and derided by numerous economists, “economists”, officials and policymakers - as well as lots of journalists.

I absolutely don’t want a disastrous 1976-style outcome - which is why I’ve taken the blows and issued the warnings.

The state is too big. Public spending is out of control. Our fiscal rules are a convenient nonsense - designed to kick the can of financial reality into the future. We need to get real … and take bold action to tame the growth of spending, push back a now totally over-bearing state and snap the British economy out of today’s high-tax-high-borrowing-low-growth doom loop - the result of myopic, counter-productive policy-making by successive governments for the last decade and more …

Other prominent economists who agree with me - ie who are financially-literate, can read a yield curve, have a passing interest in economic history and who understand the dangers of some 80pc of UK government borrowing going on debt interest as it currently is - need to chuck “career risk” in the bin, and start saying publicly what so many of them have, for quite a while now, only had the bottle to say to me in private …

Remember: “The fasten seat belts sign is on”

[Wendy Rogers @WendyRogersAZ]

Always admired Audrey Hepburn.
Class. Poise. Genuine.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Yeah, but he didn't get to meet Taylor Swift back stage.

[St Mungo's @StMungos]

St Mungo's outreach teams are out tonight and every night, helping people off the streets and into safety. Donate today and help make tonight someone's last night on the streets.

[Tamara Pupic @tashapupic]

Our August 2023 edition brings a reminder that many don't realize that it indeed is a privilege when people give them their time - until they lose it. More in @thisisaby's note. @EntMagazineME

[Lionesses @Lionesses]

This team is something special. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Lionesses @Lionesses]

WE ARE #FIFAWWC FINALISTS FOR THE FIRST TIME! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👏

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill.

No limit.

Please let us know.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

England beat Denmark for second Women's World Cup win as Lauren James scores stunner

https://t.co/ZIttgE4lKz

[Mental Health Foundation @mentalhealth]

Research shows that helping others can benefit our mental health. It can reduce stress and improve mood, self-esteem and well-being 💚

Check out our ‘Kindness Matters’ guide to learn more 👉 https://t.co/xUdtgBFd7g

#KindnessMatters #ActsOfKindness #Kindness

[NHS Confederation @NHSConfed]

"Politicians and policymakers must walk the walk when it comes to true parity of esteem"

Mental health must be put firmly back on at the top of the healthcare policy agenda, writes our @NHSConfed_MHN chief executive Sean Duggan in @HSJnews.

https://t.co/ZpXDKSxw3A

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Urban African-American communities have become food deserts where you cannot find healthy food. It’s time to bring wholesome food and agriculture to these communities, which is what Vel Scott has done at her beautiful farm in Cleveland.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Novak Djokovic is now three wins away from his fifth straight #Wimbledon title 😳

[CARICOM: Caribbean Community @CARICOMorg]

Happy CARICOM Day 🇦🇬🇧🇸🇧🇧🇧🇿🇩🇲🇬🇩🇬🇾🇭🇹🇯🇲🇲🇸🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨🇸🇷🇹🇹🇦🇮🇧🇲🇻🇬🇰🇾🇹🇨

#CARICOMAT50 #IAMCARICOM #STRONGERTOGETHER #ONECARIBBEAN #GOLDENJUBILEE #SOLIDFOUNDATION

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Today’s Order Paper with time for two Backbench business debates , on worthy topics , BUT no debates allowed on the @WHO Treaty or the excess deaths, despite my requests for the last six months.

This is democracy 2023 😞

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts.

I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me.

This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system.

If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too.

[Kevin - WE THE PEOPLE🦁 @bambkb]

🚨🚨🚨 President Kennedy warning us about ‘The New World Order’😳👇

“ for we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily on COVERT means in expanding its influence - on INFILTRATION instead of invasion - on subversion instead of free elections - on intimidation instead of free choice - on guerrillas by night, instead of armies by day” 😳

We are going against : “ a system that has conscripted VAST human and material resources and highly efficient machine that combines MILITARY, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations” 😬

“Their preparations are concealed NOT published, it’s mistakes are BURIED not headlined, it’s dissenters are SILENCED not praised, no expenditure is questioned, no rumour is printed, no secret is revealed”

President Kennedy knew exactly what we were gonna face at some point in the future and was assassinated for it!

We are up against the most dangerous Cult/group in the world - Good luck to us and may GOD bless us all!!

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Florida's Surgeon General leads the way again, no wonder so many Americans are moving to the State. 🙏

https://t.co/uD6g2hnySF